Dank

Mein Gott, dir sag ich Dank,
daß du die Jugend mir bis über alle Wipfel
in Morgenrot getaucht und Klang,
und auf des Lebens Gipfel,
bevor der Tag geendet,
vom Herzen unbewacht
den falschen Glanz gewendet,
daß ich nicht taumle ruhmgeblendet,
da nun herein die Nacht
dunkelt in ernster Pracht.

Submitted by Maria Nimmerfall

Authorship

• by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Thomas Schubert (b. 1961), "Dank" [mixed chorus and 2 French horns], from Drei Nachtstücke, no. 3. [
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  ]

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